Finette Cendron

Woman on horseback

Finette Cendron (meaning in English, Cunning Cinders) is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy.[1]

It combines Aarne-Thompson types 327A and 510A.[2] Other tales of 510A type include "Cinderella", "Katie Woodencloak", "Fair, Brown and Trembling", "The Sharp Grey Sheep", "Rushen Coatie", or "The Wonderful Birch".[3]

  1. ^ Marie Catherine Baronne D'Aulnoy "Finette Cendron" Archived 2013-08-24 at the Wayback Machine The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy Miss Annie Macdonell and Miss Lee, translators. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
  2. ^ Trinquet, Charlotte (2007). "On the Literary Origins of Folkloric Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Madame d'Aulnoy's "Finette Cendron" and Frank Bourisaw's "Belle Finette"". Marvels & Tales. 21 (1): 34–49. doi:10.1353/mat.2007.a241659. ISSN 1536-1802.
  3. ^ Ashliman, D. L. (2015). "Cinderella: Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines". University of Pittsburgh.